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lol, my practice partner (basically the 2300+ player) uses LP which I play against all the time, I also use LP myself on my offhand, so I do know quite a bit. You're wrong about the first statement btw, because it's all about the LP user's technique and not about the rubber alone. Also a LP user...

Dawei 388D-1 is the Gold standard for the most part, you can use 0.5mm sponge or OX, either should work well.

There's a lot of pros who start slow - Zhang Jike and Wang Liqin being probably the worst offenders in the past. Sometimes they play trash for the first few games and then when they got warmed up it is just game over for their opponents. They were lucky that they had their careers before the...

LPs can directly sideswipe or attack short serves to extreme angles (I know how easy it is because I played LPs with my offhand a while back) or short push them, so it's not as easy as saying "just banana flick it to hell". Also a short push to the extreme wide FH or BH is not so easily banana...

Yeah that's just a low level LP user for the most part, you probably won't be saying the same thing if it was low and short and still topspin, or he randomly flicked it with weird spin with the LP.... and alternated the receives (with LP or inverted) randomly. If you served long and didn't get...

LP has huge advantage over inverted in serve receive due to less spin sensitivity (which is a huge part of the game!) and also as a tool to change spin/speed, and make the game more complex, which always favours the penholders. No penholder wants to go into the topspin rally unless you're Felix...

I'm not sure if they even explored those opportunities in the 1st place, a lot of the coaches don't even bother developing alternative players because double inverted is "proven". It fits the CNT mentality of if it ain't broken, don't fix it. The alternative players don't even get chances to...

Even Simon Gauzy lost to antispin player Luka a while back, and I think Luka's style would be far inferior to an equivalent player using penhold. Spin variation is still extremely important especially if you have a good short game and have a massive attack to back it. You can see plenty of...

Yes but what I mean is that they didn't use the LPs or the inverted side to the max potential. Players like Ryu Seung Min, Kaii Yoshida and Chiang Peng Lung definitely used the inverted side to the max but they didn't have the LPs. A lot of players with LPs didn't have such strong inverted...

Have you ever played 2300+ level inverted/LP penhold players to make that statement? Imo penhold pips players are way more dangerous than shakehand pips. Shakehand strokes are larger, there's way less deception and you don't get the TPB/RPB flexibility on the BH. Also the penhold FH loopkill...

If the receiver can read the serve perfectly every time, the server is indeed at a disadvantage for sure. But it is really not easy to read serves in TT....

The server still has a distinct advantage over a player doing chiquita, but it requires a change of mindset in serving. In the past the norm is to serve short and then attack the 3rd ball. Now that will simply get you killed because of the amount of sheer variation you can do on the short...

Played in 36 deg weather today and it was so hot and humid that I couldn't really get going physically. Also, the stupid balls were slipping so much that even when I contact the bottom of the ball and hit upwards with my loop stroke against topspin balls it's still going to the net. What a joke...

main thing is serve/receive like what you identified, especially with your deep BH. He has more advanced serves than the last opponent (i can see hook + pendulum already and he varies his serve positioning quite a bit). This guy has a relatively good BH and a terrible FH (look at the amount of...

just buy one from eBay lol

Head heavy setups are my kryptonite too - the balance of the racket is extremely important for my wrist to feel ok. One thing that helped me last time with the wrists was to use my left hand to move the mouse and hold the phone just to relieve the pressure from my right hand, and of course lots...

WCQ has the best serves on the circuit, and is probably only 2nd to Ma Long on the receive. I think he has quite some haters because his serves are considered to be on the more illegal side.

Personal opinion, but I think it's good for beginners to start off with big strokes to get a hang of how to make good relaxed contact and as you improve, you start to make it more efficient and reduce unnecessary movements.

One thing I noticed in Sun Yingsha's games (that I never really noticed before), is the deception in the amount of spin generated in her topspin strokes on the BH. So all of her BHs look like flat ish BHs because of how she just goes forward through the ball but sometimes you see from the...

There are some contact tricks to overcome each spin type easily (there are 6 in total imo), and a lot of it has to do with which part of the ball you hit and the direction of the force. For eg against I always spin it slightly to the left against straight serves or reverse pendulum, and more in...